Pilot Flashcards
Eevee- the 133rd Pokémon- can evolve into Vaporeon, Electreon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, Glaceon and Sylveon.
Jolteon, come on now.
In J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Fellowship of the Ring, the titular fellowship is composed of nine members with representatives from four races: Hobbit, Dwarf, Elf, and Man.
Gandalf is a member of the Istari race.
Released shortly after the Nintendo GameCube launch, “Super Smash Bros. Melee” quickly became a fan favorite. Despite “Melee” having over two dozen playable characters, at the time, no character on the roster had yet starred in their own GameCube game.
Luigi had starred in “Luigi’s Mansion.”
Anduril, which means Flame of the West, was the name of the sword wielded by Elendil during the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. Once broken, Elendil’s son Isildur used the broken handle-shard of Anduril to cut the One Ring from Sauron’s hand. 3,000 years later, it was reforged and given to Aragorn, son of Arathorn.
The sword wasn’t named Anduril until it was reforged. Before that, it was called Narsil.
Superman, known originally as Kal-El, was born on the planet of Krypton, which was destroyed in a terrible cataclysm. Although the exploding planet would not have been able to harm the invulnerable infant Kal-El, the fearsome Zod, General of Krypton certainly would have.
Infant Kal-El would have been hurt by Krypton’s explosion because his powers come from the Earth’s Yellow sun.
Dragons come in many shapes and sizes, and subcategories of dragons can be identified through slight differences in their appearance. For example, wyverns have only two legs, wyrms are enormous legless, wingless serpents, and Japanese dragons are long, flying, four-legged creatures with four toes on each foot.
Japanese dragons only have three toes. Chinese dragons have four toes, and the emperor’s dragons have five.
Bonus: there are winged and wingless wyrms according to the Lord of the Rings taxonomy.
Wyverns as a kind of dragon but in the Dungeons and Dragons monster manuals going all the way back to AD&D it is very clear that Wyverns are not dragons and are more closely related to lizards and drakes.
Batman, aka Bruce Wayne, keeps the streets of Gotham safe from the most impressive rogue’s gallery in comics. His archnemesis, the Joker, has foiled him time and time again, often aided by Harley Quinn, whose first appearance in The Killing Joke is held up as one of the most popular recent additions to the Batman Universe.
Harley Quinn’s first appearance was in Batman: The Animated Series.
In “Full Metal Alchemist,” brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric visit the home of Shou Tucker, a state alchemist who specializes in creating chimeras. They are horrified to discover that in his desperation to create a chimera capable of human speech, Shou Tucker broke the taboo of human transmutation for the first time by merging his young daughter with a dog to create a new creature.
Shou Tucker’s first human transmutation was with his wife.
C-3PO’s first encounter with a member of the Skywalker family occurs not when he meets Luke Skywalker on the desert planet of Tatooine, but when he meets Princess Leia Organa aboard her Alderaan Cruiser.
C-3PO’s first encounter with a Skywalker is when he is fixed and reassembled by Anakin Skywalker.
In Return of the Jedi, the rebels attack and destroy the new Death Star’s shield generator on the planet Endor with the help of furry creatures called Ewoks.
Endor is a forest moon.
In The Chronicles of Narnia, the human visitors to Narnia are also united by their death, a train wreck that kills every human visitor to Narnia simultaneously, including Diggory Kirk and Polly Plummer, Jill Pole, the four Pevensie siblings and their cousin Eustace Scrubb.
Susan is not killed in the train wreck, as she is in America at the time.
We first see the palace of Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine when he is given Han Solo’s body frozen in Carbonite. He also keeps a monstrous creature in his palace known as the Sarlacc and feeds his enemies to it.
Sarlacc is the Antlion type pit monster. Jabba’s palace
The primary antagonist of the Zelda franchise, Ganondorf, is a member of the Gerudo race, thieves and tricksters from the desert. Trained by his father in the ways of magic, Ganondorf often possesses the Triforce of Power, making him nearly invincible.
Ganondorf does not have a father, as the Gerudo are a race of women with one male born every 100 years, who immediately becomes their king.
In L. Frank Baum ‘s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy acquires a pair of ruby slippers after accidentally killing the Wicked Witch of the East. These slippers are ultimately the method by which she returns to Kansas.
The slippers were silver in the book.
As a powerful Sith Lord, Darth Vader can harness power of the dark side of the Force to conjure Force lightning, and use the power of the Force for evil means like when he uses telekinesis to choke adversaries.
Darth Vader cannot cast Force lightning because he has mechanical limbs.
It may not have won the Tony for Best Musical, but original Broadway hit “Grease” was loaded with catchy songs: “Summer Nights,” “Grease,” and “Hopelessly Devoted to You” all become top-10 Billboard hits. And “You’re the One That I Want” is one of the top 10 best selling singles of all time.
None of those songs except for “Summer Nights” were in the original Broadway production of Grease.
The title of the Halo series refers to the Halo array: a series of colossal ring shaped superweapons built by the covenant to destroy their enemies and assert control over the galaxy.
The Halo array was built by the Forerunners.
Of the many shops and storefronts in Diagon Alley, such as The Three Broomsticks, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, and Ollivander’s Wand Shop, perhaps none is more important than Gringott’s, the Wizard Bank. This highly guarded establishment is run by goblins, and it is where Harry first realizes the enormous fortune he has inherited from his parents, Lily and James Potter.
The Three Broomsticks is in Hogsmeade, not Diagon Alley.
In “Mortal Kombat”, characters can perform “Animalities” as a finisher, in which the character temporarily transforms into an animal and dispatches their opponent. For example, Nightwolf transforms into a wolf, Scorpion transforms into a scorpion, and Johnny Cage transforms into a kangaroo.
Scorpion transforms into a penguin.
In Stephen King’s “It,” the members of the Losers Club get lost in the sewer after battling “It,” and only manage to escape by calming their nerves with the ancient power of the Ritual of Chud.
After the Ritual of Chud they have an underage sex orgy, which helps them remember the way out of the sewer.
We all want to go to Wizarding school, whether it’s Beauxbatons in France, Ilvermorny in the United States, Uagadou in Uganda, or the famed Hogwarts in England. But did you know that you could ALSO attend W.A.D.A., aka The Wizarding Academy of the Dramatic Arts to become a theatrical performer or perhaps hone your quidditch skills at the Academy of Broom Flying.
Hogwarts is in Scotland.
Shai’hulud, meaning “Old Man of the Desert,” is the Fremen nickname for a House Atreides vassal, the grizzled warrior Gurney Halleck.
Shai’hulud is the Fremen word for the massive sand worms that roam Arrakis.
The Pokémon anime has been on the air for more than twenty years now. In that time, its protagonist, Pokemon trainer Ash Ketchum, has only won two Pokemon league championships. He’s also never caught a legendary Pokemon.
Ash has only won one Pokémon League Championship.
Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy appear to exist and work in every town, though it is acknowledged that neither is a single entity, but rather multiple identical clones.
They’re all members of the same family.
